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. H. N. FELEY BOOK Filed April 2, 1926 mama 2 Sheetssheefc 1 Ill/VENTOR Hem y IVFe/ey BY I Hi5 ATZORNEYJ Patented Nov 2,1926.

- HENRY n. FELEY, or EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

Application filed April 2, 1926. Serial No. 99,237.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved flat-opening check-book, or other book, constructed in an advantageous manner so that the book will lie open at any point. It is a serious inconvenience of ordinary check-books that they must be held open in order to keep the stubs from springing over onto the page to be written upon. I According to the present invention the book is bound by means of shaft members passed through openings in thesheets and cover and provided with upset heads outside the cover, and spacer means on the shafts inside the cover, the spacer means being adapted to .bear against the inner sides of'the cover and keep the sheetsfree, that is to say, not tightly held or gripped. This, to ether with the fact that the openings throng the separate sheets are materially larger than thediameter of the parts. standing within them, permits the leaves to separate loosely at any point where the book is opened. As a further element of the complete combination, the sheets are provided 'with limp, creased zones adjacent and in front of the openings. Other features of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof: Fig. 1 is a plan view of the book embodying the invention, a portion of the cover being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection through the book, open, the end portions being broken away because of lack of space;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view on a larger scale, showing the closed .condition;

Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7 are detail sectional views of parts seen in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, before assembling;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional view like Fig. 3, showing another construction;

Fig. 9 is a side elevation ofthe rivet shaft of Fig. 8, with its prongs unbent;

Figs. 10 and 1-1 are sections of other parts seen in Fig.9; and' Fig. 12 is a sectional view of a'book show ing still another modification.

The stifi-boa-rd cover of the bookis marked 2, the hinges of the front and back parts of the cover are marked 3, and the binding strip of the cover is marked. 4. The interior pad consists of separate leaves 5,-not united by stitching, staples or gum.

Two large holes 6 are made through the rear portion of the collection of leaves, and corresponding holes 7 are made in the cover. The holes in both the leaves and cover may be made at the same time.

In the construction shown 1 to 7, a tubular shaft 8 having aflange 9 is first inserted through each'of-the holes in one of'the parts of the cover, the flange 9 being on the outside of the cover; A sleeve.

10 having a flange 11 is then-"pushed over each of the shafts 8 so that the flange 11 bears against the inside of the cover. The end 120i this sleeve is preferably contracted so as to clasp the'shaft 8 frictionally and ten sionally, holding the parts in preliminary assembly. i

The two shafts 8 and two sleeves 1Q {having been inserted in this manner, the collection of sheets 5 are placed over the shafts and sleeves. I are preferably shorter than the sleeves 10, also having flanges 11, andpreferably having their ends '12 contracted are pushed on over the protruding endsof the shaftsuntil the ends 12, 12 abut The openings]? in the other. cover member are then passed over the ends of the shafts, this cover member resting on the flanges 11*. A washer 13 is placed over the end of each shaft out.- side the cover, an the ends l l-are upset, forming a retaining head. The flanges 9 forming the heads at the opposite side of the book are preferably shaped under pressure in the dies as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be observed that the spacer means formed by the members 10, 10*, the flanges tance between the flanges '11, 11 is somewhat greater than the thickness of the pad of leaves, or, at least, the leaves are only loosely held between these flanges. Furthermore, it

Then two'sleeves 10, ,;which:

. 11, 11 of which bear against the inner sides will be seen that the holes '6 through the leaves are materially wider than the external diameter of the sleeves 10 within them. Gonsequently, when the book is opened at any point, the two sections of the collection Q r rea ers of leaves part freely as shown in Fig. 2, and there is no tendency for one side to flop over on the other. Further contributing to this effect, the individual leaves are provided with limp zones 15, parallel with the binding, adjacent and in front of the holes 6, these zones being formed by numerous parallel creases or by other treatment, tending to destroy the springiness of the paper at the regions where the leaves curve over the'bends of the cover at the hinges 6, without seriously injuringthe s trengthflof the fiber.

In Fig. 8, the shaft, instead of being a tubular member is a split rivet 20, havin a solid head 21 at one end. In the final operation of asse1nbling, the prongs of this rivet are spread apart; or upset, and a cap is applied over and in engagement with them, forming av head' The spacer means inside the binding comprise a sleeve 22 and two separate end flanges 23 having collars 2 1- which are inserted into the ends of thesleeve, the whole encircling the shaft of the rivet.

1 In Fig. 12, the spacer means comprises a sleeve 30v and two washers 31 abutting. the ends of the sleeve and formingjflanges to bear against the inner sides of the. cover and keep the leaves. from being gripped.

Still other forms and modifications of the binding and spacing means are contemplated. Natunally, eithe1',;p fth&' forms of shaft may be used with"' l'any"one of the formings of' spacing means.

I claim.

1. lln a booli having covers and apluralv itv of sheets loosely mounted between said 3 covers, a permanentbinding comprising spacing means for spacing the covers in predeterminedly set relation to each other, said spacing means comprising a sleeve portion and end flanges, said flanges beingspaced apart a distance greater than the thickness of the collection of sheets and interposed on either hand between the sheets i and the cover, and a shaft passinig" through said spacing means and covers for permanently securing-the covers and the collection of sheets, with thecovers in the predeterminedly set relation to each other and the leaves loosely confined between said spacer flanges, said shaft being provided with a head on one end and an upset portion opposite end.

2. A book comprising, in combination, a cover and collection of sheets perforated for binding, a shaft passing through the perforations in the sheets and cover and provided'with heads outside-of the cover, and spacer means surrounding the shaft and extending from cover to cover and comprisin provi ed with flanges, establishing for the sheets a space greater than the thickness of a .plurality of preformed sections the collection of sheets, said spacer sections predeterminedly set relation between thefront and back covers.

3. A book comprising, in combination, a'

cover and a collection of sheets'perforated for binding, a shaft passing through the perforations in the sheets and cover and provided with heads outside of the cover,

andv spacer means on the shaft inside the cover comprising two abutting sleeves having preformed flanges on their remote ends adapted to bear on either hand against the inner sidesof 'the cover, the sheets being loosely confined between said flanges, and the covers tightly held between said flanges and the headson the'shaft, the parts all being permanently bound together.

d. A binding for a fiat-opening book, comprising a shafthpassing through openings in the sheets and cover and provided with heads outside-the cover, and spacer means on the shaft inside the cover comprising two abutting sleeves having their abutting ends contracted to clasp the shaft and their remote ends flanged to bear against the inner sidcs'of-the cover.

5. The method of making a book which .tion and the head on said shaft, passing said shaft and section through the openings in the collection of sheets, the shaft passing all the way through and extending beyond the sheets and the sleeve passing partway through the openings in the sheets, inserting another preformed spacer section throughthe openings in said sheets from the opposite side of the collection of sheets, said spacer sections abut-ting to establish a space for the sheets greater than thethickness of thecollection of sheets, passing the extended head of-said shaft through the other cover, and upsetting said extended end so that the covers are gripped between the ends of, the shaft and the spacer sections while the leaves remain loose between the spacer sec tions.

- PWNRY N. KEELEY. 

